This is a weekly podcast hosted by Grandpa Pete where he talks about subjects that matter the most to him. Each episode takes about as long as it takes to eat a bowl of Cheerios.
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In this episode, we are continuing to look at what makes Grandpa Pete laugh. Today's episode introduces Bob and Ray and James Collier.
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7 Oct 2026
New Smiles
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In this episode, Grandpa Pete will learn the power of a new smile, what it's like to attend Burning Man with Joan Baez, and learn to put service above self. His guest is a long-time friend, Joe Brennan.
If you're interested and able to help, please donate to any of these organizations:
For international cleft lip and palette repair;
The Alliance for Smiles
https://www.allianceforsmiles.org/ (https://www.allianceforsmiles.org/)
For aid to Nepal and the Himalayan area;
Nepal Seeds https://www.nepalseeds.org/ (https://www.nepalseeds.org/)
The American Himalayan Foundation;
https://www.himalayan-foundation.org/ (https://www.himalayan-foundation.org/)
30 Sept 2026
Future Dreams
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In this episode, Grandpa Pete talks about making plans as he graduated from high school. He brings in two granddaughters who are in the middle of making that decision now, and then shares a story about his own windy road. Then he shares a beautiful piano piece called "Lieberstraum" by Franz Liszt.
To learn more about this song and the love poem that it was based on, here is a link: https://classicalexburns.com/2020/09/22/franz-liszt-liebestraum-no-3-the-purest-kind-of-love/ (https://classicalexburns.com/2020/09/22/franz-liszt-liebestraum-no-3-the-purest-kind-of-love/)
23 Sept 2026
Making Big Decisions
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In this episode, Grandpa Pete talks about some big decisions he had to make in his professional career and is joined by his grandsons Zachary and Jacob about big decisions they've made recently.
16 Sept 2026
About Playing
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In this episode, Grandpa Pete talks to his grandsons, Lincoln and Owen, about a game that he knows nothing about, but teaches a few important life lessons.
9 Sept 2026
Conflict Resolution
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Grandpa Pete sits down with Dr. Emily de Schweinitz Taylor and discusses an early conflict in his marriage and how he could have resolved it better. Dr. Taylor is the author of two books and teaches two courses at Brigham Young University. She is also the host of her own podcast on conflict resolution: https://www.byuradio.org/conflict-coach (https://www.byuradio.org/conflict-coach)
2 Sept 2026
About Running
In this episode, Grandpa Pete talks about his early efforts at physical fitness, as well as interviews three of his grandsons, Alex, Joe, and Henry, about running in different stages of life and what secrets they've found that have made it worth it.
26 Aug 2026
A Baby In Iran?
This story recounts the decision that Grandpa Pete and Leanne made to travel to Iran when expecting a baby.
Here are the two poems Grandpa Pete shares:
The great Sufi master Hafez wrote:
Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth,
"You owe me."
Look what happens with a love like that
— it lights the whole sky.
And Saadi composed the famous lines that are inscribed today at the entrance of the United Nations building:
Human beings are members of a whole,
In creation of one essence and soul.
If one member is afflicted with pain,
Other members uneasy will remain.
If you've no sympathy for human pain,
The name of human you cannot retain.
19 Aug 2026
Our Town
In this episode, Grandpa Pete talks about the play "Our Town" and reminisces about what he learned from performing this play two times in the lead role, 25 years apart.
12 Aug 2026
What Makes Me Laugh
This one takes us back in time to the 1960s, where I was just discovering the importance of what makes me laugh, and laugh at myself.
5 Aug 2026
The Symphony of Life
This is a little bit of a different Cheerio chat. Grandpa Pete shares his memories of the final days of his wife Leanne. If you are not ready to hear this, please skip this episode, and we'll see you next week.
29 Jul 2026
2 Rodneys
This is a story about the importance of 2 Rodney's and their roles in American independence
22 Jul 2026
Time
As I Walked Out One Evening (https://allpoetry.com/As-I-Walked-Out-One-Evening)
As I walked out one evening,
Walking down Bristol Street,
The crowds upon the pavement
Were fields of harvest wheat.
And down by the brimming river
I heard a lover sing
Under an arch of the railway:
"Love has no ending.
"I'll love you, dear, I'll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street,
"I'll love you till the ocean
Is folded and hung up to dry
And the seven stars go squawking
Like geese about the sky. "The years shall run like rabbits,
For in my arms I hold The Flower of the Ages,
And the first love of the world."
But all the clocks in the city
Began to whirr and chime:
"O let not Time deceive you,
You cannot conquer Time.
"In the burrows of the Nightmare
Where Justice naked is,
Time watches from the shadow
And coughs when you would kiss.
"In headaches and in worry
Vaguely life leaks away,
And Time will have his fancy
To-morrow or to-day.
"Into many a green valley
Drifts the appalling snow;
Time breaks the threaded dances
And the diver's brilliant bow.
"O plunge your hands in water,
Plunge them in up to the wrist;
Stare, stare in the basin
And wonder what you've missed.
"The glacier knocks in the cupboard,
The desert sighs in the bed,
And the crack in the tea-cup opens
A lane to the land of the dead.
"Where the beggars raffle the banknotes
And the Giant is enchanting to Jack,
And the Lily-white Boy is a Roarer,
And Jill goes down on her back.
"O look, look in the mirror?
O look in your distress:
Life remains a blessing
Although you cannot bless.
"O stand, stand at the window
As the tears scald and start;
You shall love your crooked neighbour
With your crooked heart."
It was late, late in the evening,
The lovers they were gone;
The clocks had ceased their chiming,
And the deep river ran on.
15 Jul 2026
Psalm 23
Join Grandpa Pete as he talks about what matters most about Psalm 23.
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8 Jul 2026
Golden Tempo
Join Grandpa Pete as he talks about what is most important about the Kentucky Derby 2026. Send feedback to cheeriochatpodcast@gmail.com (mailto:cheeriochatpodcast@gmail.com).
30 Jun 2026
Mohamed Salah
In this episode Grandpa Pete shares what he feels is most important about Mohamed Salah. Send feedback to cheeriochatpodcast@gmail.com (mailto:cheeriochatpodcast@gmail.com).
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